What search engine did you use BEFORE Google?

Today it's impossible for me to use anything other than Google.

But I remember using many other search engines before Google. The one I used the most was probably AltaVista. I was really proud when I realized it could be accessed with "av.com".

What did you use before you found Google?

 

i used yahoo

 

Although it was a directory, I was using Yahoo! Sometimes 1% Altavista, Dogpile and Lycos. Nowdays 99.5% Google and 0.05% Yahoo

 

Yahoo for me. Like adigital, I occasionally still use Yahoo, but Google is the norm.

 

Infoseek was my #1, must have been 10 years ago.
Happy times

 

yahoo is the next good search engine, next to yahoo is MSN, next Askjeeves

 

yahoo which I still use for about 25% of my searches.
But at the very beggining I used to use sapo.pt and the oldie altavista

 

Well when Google wasn't the norm, I never had a single SE I turned to, rather, a few;

Yahoo, MSN, DogPile, Hotbot, Altavista and Lycos.

Never had a steady one.

 

My earliest searches involved using Archie and Gopher
When the web came out, I remember moving to exciting new search engines like WebCrawler, Lycos, AltaVista, Excite and HotBot. These times were interesting in that each search engine would have indexed places the others may have missed.
I was working for a computer magazine when the Technical Editor just popped in and said, have a look at this search site - It was Google and they were then running from Stanford University. It was not too different from today and was a large difference from the then main engine like AltaVista which had a cluttered main page.

Nowadays, I use Yahoo and Google, and a few of the other ones when required. One thing that is the pity is people who rely on Google only for example and may miss out very good results from other engines.

 

For me, there was nothing before google! There was after google (for a bit) which was yahoo, but then I switched back

 

12 years ago when I started using the net, it was yahoo, webcrawler and lycos. I switched to google 'cause it was faster.

 

I used yahoo back when it wasn't bloated with useless news, adds, email and whatever else they trying to market at the moment.

 

I used yahoo and sometimes alta vista before I discovered the amazing world of google.

 

i always have used google, perhaps i started late. i started using internet from late 99, so perhaps google was famous enough then!

 

Before google I justed at first Altavista and later hotbot. Hotbot was a great search engine. I justed to find everything with it (just like google now)

 

I used Yahoo first then ask because they were telling everyone that they could answer keyword phases better than anyone else.

Does anyone have a graph of how Google has become the most popular SE? I mean was there a steady growth or overnight everyone started using Google and started saying "Google it" rather than "Search for it"?

 

I used mamma.com, things have changed a lot since then

 

i started using google.co.in
and then google.com

 

www.yahoo.com before they went anti-dialup and created a page that would take ages to load on my dial up.freakin idiots.

 

i used yahoo b4 google n i think yahoo was the best search engine b4 the google...